New South Wales Law Reform Commission
To the Honourable Bob Debus MLC
Attorney General for New South Wales
Dear Attorney
The Right to Silence
We make this final Report pursuant to the reference to this Commission dated 1 August 1997.
The Hon Justice Michael Adams
Chairperson
His Honour Judge Bob Bellear, Commissioner
The Hon Justice John Dowd AO, Deputy Chairperson (until December 1999)†
The Hon David Hunt AO, Commissioner (until July 1999)‡
The Hon Justice Greg James, Commissioner
July 2000
( † Justice Dowd has continued to participate in the finalisation of the Report as a consultant.)
(‡ The Hon David Hunt AO was formerly Chief Judge at Common Law of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and became a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on 16 November 1998. His term as a Commissioner expired in July 1999. He has also continued to participate in this Report as a consultant.)
Participants
Pursuant to s 12A of the Law Reform Commission Act 1967 (NSW) the Chairperson of the Commission constituted a Division† for the purpose of conducting the reference. The members of the Division are:
The Hon Justice Michael Adams*
His Honour Judge Bob Bellear
The Hon Justice John Dowd (until December 1999)
The Hon David Hunt AO (until July 1999)
The Hon Justice Greg James
(* denotes Commissioner-in-Charge)
( † Other Division members during the early phase of this reference were the Hon Justice Virginia Bell, Mr Brent Fisse, His Honour Judge John Goldring, the Hon Justice Peter Hidden and Professor David Weisbrot.)
Officers of the Commission
Executive Director
Legal Research and Writing
Ms Ailsa Goodwin
Ms Rosalind Dixon
Librarian
Desktop Publishing
Administrative Assistance
Honorary Consultant
Dr David Dixon, University of New South Wales
